Tony Harnell was the voice of Norwegian Hard Rock band TNT for more than 22 years. In 2006 he decided to leave the band and start working on a solo career. ‘Round Trip’, put together with his ‘band’ ‘The Mercury Train’ is his first ‘solo’ effort.

The idea behind the album is simple and very inventive. Harnell gave some of his albums to these musicians and invited them to pick up the songs they liked and work out new arrangements. Interesting to know is that none of the guys knew Harnell, belonged to the Hard Rock or metal scene and was a huge fan of his work with TNT. After some time, they all came together and started working on everyone’s ideas.

The result is fantastic. The album is a great collection of stripped down and reinvented songs Tony Harnell recorded with his previous bands: TNT, Westworld and Starbreaker. Only one new song ‘Anywhere But Here’ and one Alanis Morissette cover made it on the album. I enjoyed the album a lot and I am convinced that fans of great acoustic driven rock are going to love this one as much as I did. It absolutely doesn’t matter if you know Tony Harnell or love his work with TNT. In fact I believe it is more of an advantage that you come across these songs for the first time. Most of these stripped to the bone versions are much better than the original ones.